Funny now that I am looking for one can't find it... lol.... btw is this good with ballistix?
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Funny now that I am looking for one can't find it... lol.... btw is this good with ballistix?
has anyone order their board from newegg.com if so when and what rev did you get? also I plan on running 2x bfg 7800 gtx with this board and an x-fi FPS in between them. is anyone having any trouble? by trouble I mean is it running hot.
I have 2 evga KO's with a XiFi inbetween. So far it seems ok. The bottom card seems to be hitting around 67 C. One word of caution, one of the capacitors on the XiFi is resting on the backplate of my KO. I don't know if this may become a problem since that plate tends to get very hot. Almost burn your hand hot. Room temps have been around 71 F and I have 2 x 92mm fans blowing on the video cards.Quote:
Originally Posted by safan80
Can these boards be used in the V2000 or not if not why not??
Sorry but I cant find it in the manual and I would realy like to know as I may buy one
i too have an xfi music in between 2 gtx's that are water cooled and that over sized capacitor was a pain....had to "mod" the back plate of the dangerden hold down - a little dremel here and now all is well ;)
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Originally Posted by skinnypotbelly
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Originally Posted by chunkylover77
Where did you see the heatpipe cant be used in a V2000 I have been looking but cant find it in the manual
Seems fine with the Z503 2GB. Haven't played about with it too much, but get 2-2-2-5 1T at DDR400, 3-3-3-8 1T right up to DDR564 (with 2.85v). The higher the native CPU multiplier, the easier it all gets really, but isn't that always the case. Dual channel memory shows such a performance hit when dividers come in to play.Quote:
Originally Posted by jinu117
B/c that case inverts the motherboard which defeats the passive heatsink's ability to cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by fatty
I have a x-fi fps which has the x- ram on it and if it's going to touch I'm not going to buy this board.Quote:
Originally Posted by skinnypotbelly
http://www.bit-tech.net/content_imag...tive_xfi/3.jpg
does anyone know if this board has problems with maxtor diamondmax 10 hdd old drives? I am having lot of problems with my actual DFI SLI-DR when trying to overclock using two Maxtor Max10 300GB so I ordered an ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe to see if the famous Nf4 bug with early 16mb cache Maxtor has been fixed....
My 2 300GB maxtor are more than 1 year old. Sometimes on boot DFI SLI DR does not recognize them and fails to boot. I tried changing mb but this is the third with the same problems (I tried any official, beta and mod bios).
I bought a Maxtor 300GB / 16MB cache in Jan 2005. Do you consider that old? No O/C problems for me. I'm running a 3000+ Winchester @ 260 x 9 on stock voltage and air. Also running a 2 yr old Maxtor 120GB / 8MB SATA drive on the same rig, no problems. See my sig.Quote:
Originally Posted by arrarro
the heat will still follow the least resistant path... Meaning. it will find its way down the pipe to the cool side fine. Who came up with the silly idea it wouldnt work with a BTX anyways?Quote:
Originally Posted by Capt_Caveman
it just wont be as efficient.
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Originally Posted by jinu117
You'll love this board bro...once you get everything dial in properly it's solid as rock, I haven't seen this board kill anything yet but I'm sure time will tell :D :toast:
I think this problem, the cap on the xifi touching the vid card, would only happen on the KO's since they have that metal casing all around the video card. If I was using regular 7800's, I don't think it would touch. I don't know about that x-ram though.Quote:
Originally Posted by safan80
Hi, ben, great thread, thank you.
PS:// What's your temp when your CABNE 148 prime @ 3GHz in A8N32? I have a CABNE 0528 148/ ASUS A8N32 currently prime at 3GHz @ 1.45V in BIOS / 1.47V in ProbeII. I got 46C for CPU, 31C for MB.
My rig:
MB: ASUS A8N32-SLI
CPU: CABNE 0528GPMW Opteron 148 1.45V 3.0GHz prime stable / SI-120
Mem: Mushkin Redline XP4000 2GB
Case: Antec P180
thanks, around 38~39'C underload....though my CABNE is naked :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by bobov
Uhmmm i think I am in hurry to get this board now. My 3800+ spontaneously decided to die ro my 2 DFI NF4 Ultra and SLI which has been flakey for last couple of days are dead together... or could be all 3 ... -_-; Well going to have some shopping frenzy except I am stuck by unavailibility of board now...
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Originally Posted by jinu117
Seems mwave has a8n32 in stock right now. :)
At $259? Hmmm let me ponder over... Intel seems more viable option to me each minute now... (forget how hot the chip is... I can cool it hehe)Quote:
Originally Posted by bobov
You gotta flash the Firmware of the drives to BANC1B70 or newer, and use the SATA drivers from version 6.39 forceware. A friend of mine has the same drive firmware but he can use newer drivers without a hitch, so it might just be a WinXP issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by arrarro
As I am soon building my new rig around this mobo I would Just like to add my appreciation to ben805 and others that have 'gone before'
I was reading on Asus's A8N32 Forum and came across the following issue report
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- Adding or removing hard drives or changing RAID settings destroys the Hard-Drive boot-order in the BIOS setup, causing the OS to fail to boot. This is annoying for users who know that it breaks, and impossibly frustrating for new board purchasers
* SMALL TIMESAVER: After you change drive settings and SAVE/EXIT the BIOS Setup, hit F8 during boot to bring up the BBS menu. (Boot drive selector). You'll still have to get into the BIOS menu on your next reboot to set the drive order permanently, but I mention it anyway just for kicks "
My intention is to run two separate Instillations of XP on two non raided Sata drives with the primary boot drive fixed up to a drive caddy thus I can boot to drive 1 when that drive is in the caddy or boot to drive 2 when the caddy is empty.
I would be most grateful for some advice as to whether the above issue would scupper my cunning plan, or indeed any advice regarding my plan.
Cheers
Booting the OS becomes a problem when any HDD is added or removed from the PC.
It screws up the boot order config. It is a bit of a pain when I forget to plug in my external USB HDD because the PC won't load the OS.
Pressing F8 gives you a boot menu which helps, but I would class it as a bug and hope that it gets fixed in a BIOS update.
Cheers :D
Thanks for confirming this for me m8 , I must say I am pretty vexed at this unexpected problem as running a 2x XP OS via a removable caddy was a pretty vital part of my now scuppered plan :( Nice one ASUS :slapass:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mickey Padge
No Problem :)
It won't stop you from running 2x OS HDD, but you must edit the boot order each time if one of the drives is removed from the PC :(
I would say that this boot problem and the non 1T mode with TCCD ram at high fsb are the only real problems I have come accross so far.
The board is rock stable and runs cool. Other people have had issues with voltages etc..., but I have not had any of these problems :)
Both issues should be fixed with a BIOS update as long as Asus are aware of the problem in the first place. I am pretty sure somebody must have let them know by now :)
Cheers